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At 34 years old, Mindy Street was living out of hotel rooms, addicted to heroin, selling her body to survive, estranged from her children, and trapped in a cycle of addiction and incarceration.

Then she was arrested and discovered she was pregnant.

Seven months into her pregnancy, with no prenatal care and still using, Mindy believed there was no hope left for her. She was ashamed, broken, and convinced everyone would be better off without her.

Then an unexpected message from an old friend gave her an opportunity to enter Chrysalis House in Kentucky.

Mindy didn't go to treatment because she believed there was hope for her. She went because she thought maybe they could save her unborn baby from her.

What happened when she walked through those doors changed everything.

Instead of being shamed for using while pregnant, Mindy was welcomed with kindness and compassion. During a long COVID-era quarantine, she finally surrendered and made a decision: if this was God's plan for her, she was going to do everything in her power to get it right this time.

On this episode of GITT Up with Adam Larkin, Mindy tells the raw story of heroin addiction, pregnancy, incarceration, motherhood, treatment, grief, recovery, and rebuilding a life she once believed was impossible.

After treatment, Mindy took a job at DV8 Kitchen because she knew people there were in recovery and believed it would be a safe place to rebuild her life.

Then another life-changing moment came.

After Mindy moved into her apartment, the grandfather who had been raising her older children unexpectedly passed away. Suddenly, Mindy was a mother of three.

She had to learn how to parent while navigating guilt from her past, felony convictions, transportation issues, financial barriers, and the challenges of rebuilding a life in recovery.

Today, Mindy's story looks completely different.

She earned her associate degree and is working toward her bachelor's degree in social work at Eastern Kentucky University. She became a homeowner and now serves as Employee Success Manager at DV8 Kitchen, where her job is helping other people overcome barriers, establish a foundation in recovery, and build a path toward their dream careers.

On July 29, 2026, Mindy celebrated 5 YEARS CLEAN AND SOBER.

The pregnancy she once believed was the worst thing that could have happened to her ultimately became part of what brought her back to her children and gave her another chance at life.

This is a powerful addiction recovery story about heroin addiction, motherhood, incarceration, treatment, faith, grief, second chances, redemption, and the power of meeting people with compassion when they believe they are beyond saving.

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From Rock Bottom to Redemption.

Joshua Woosley was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, in a home where addiction was already part of everyday life.

His father struggled with severe alcoholism. His mother battled addiction.

Then, when Josh was only 9 years old, his father was murdered.

Years later, at 18, another devastating loss followed when his best friend was murdered.

By then, substance use had already become part of Josh’s life.

Through his 20s and 30s, Josh became heavily involved in drug activity. Arrests followed. Jail followed. Multiple felony charges followed.

He went to treatment several times, but for years the cycle continued.

Eventually, one opportunity began changing the direction of his life.

Josh landed an internship in the recovery field.

What started as an internship became a career—and a completely different identity.

He worked his way up to assistant director at one of the largest recovery centers in America, taking the same experiences that once kept him trapped in addiction, crime, and incarceration and using them to help other people find a way out.

Today, Josh has worked in the recovery field for more than five years and is approaching six years clean.

But some of the biggest victories aren’t found in a job title.

Josh rebuilt his relationship with his daughter.

He rebuilt relationships with his family.

He became someone his daughter could depend on.

And instead of being consumed by the lifestyle that dominated much of his 20s and 30s, he now spends his life helping other people rebuild theirs.

On this episode of GITT Up with Adam Larkin, Josh opens up about growing up around alcoholism and addiction, losing his father to murder at nine years old, losing his best friend, substance use, drug activity, jail, felony charges, treatment, recovery, fatherhood, leadership, and what it actually took to build a life worth protecting.

This isn’t a story about pretending the past didn’t happen.

It’s about what happens when you finally decide the past doesn’t get to control what happens next.

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Trey Jenkins was born into a family shaped by alcoholism, addiction, incarceration, and mental-health struggles.

When his mother went to prison during his early childhood, Trey was passed between relatives while his father traveled for work. His grandfather became the closest thing he had to stability and a real father figure.

But after leaving that life to live with his mother and brother, Trey was introduced to drug dealing, gangs, crime, pills, and street life. By 15, he was using substances to cope with what he was seeing—and what he was becoming involved in.

At 17, Trey received devastating news: his mother had breast and lung cancer and did not have long to live.

Two weeks later, she died while holding his hand.

That same night, Trey used heroin for the first time.

To everyone around him, he appeared tough—a gang member and drug dealer who could handle anything. Underneath that image, he was scared, grieving, shooting dope, and completely alone.

Then, just 28 days after losing his mother, Trey’s brother was killed through gun and gang violence while they were together in a car.

His addiction spiraled.

Homelessness, detoxes, treatment centers, crime, and survival became his reality. At 19, Trey was shot in the leg and spent six months in the hospital. Doctors told him he was fortunate the bullet had missed a major artery.

When he was released, he was homeless in downtown New Jersey and walking with a cane.

Around age 20, Trey committed a crime that resulted in 33 months in prison. After his release, he was paroled to Cincinnati and stayed sober for a period—but unresolved pain, manipulation, toxic relationships, and relapse continued to follow him.

Fatherhood eventually planted the seed for change.

Thinking about his son Matteo—and later learning that his daughter Amia was on the way—forced Trey to confront the life he was creating and the kind of father he wanted to become.

He returned to treatment, started listening, accepted guidance, found a sponsor, worked the steps, earned his peer-support certification, and built a genuine foundation in recovery.

Today, Trey has 50% custody of his children and has also become a father figure to Maisie, the daughter of his partner in recovery.

He wakes up every day with the opportunity to help other people and has launched Breaking Generational Curses, a clothing brand that gives a portion of its proceeds to God Behind Bars.

Trey’s mission is bigger than staying sober.

He is building a life his children can be proud of—and working to ensure they never experience the pain of addiction or growing up with an addicted parent.

This is a conversation about grief, heroin addiction, gang violence, homelessness, prison, fatherhood, recovery, and finally building a life you no longer need to escape from.

Every story has a lesson. Every lesson has the power to change a life.

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More than a decade of IV heroin addiction nearly took everything.

Addiction ran through almost the entire family. Life became consumed by survival, consequences, grief, and a system that would eventually change her family forever.

One of the deepest losses came when a child was placed in a closed adoption.

Years later, life came full circle in a way nobody could have predicted.

Today, Jamie Ivey has eight years of sobriety. She is a full-time mother, a college student, and the operations manager at a facility that provides drug testing and counseling services for parents involved in family cases with the Fayette County courts.

The same kind of system that once caused some of the greatest pain in her life is now where she gets to serve others.

She sees firsthand what social workers, parents, and families experience every day. She understands the fear, the judgment, the consequences, and the possibility of transformation because she has lived it.

Before stepping into her current role, Jamie served as the director of operations for a local recovery program for four years. When she moved forward, she passed that leadership position to a former client who had come through the program and transformed into an incredible woman.

That full-circle moment represents what recovery can truly create.

In this powerful conversation with Adam Larkin, Jamie opens up about:

Growing up surrounded by family addiction

Struggling with IV heroin use for more than 10 years

Losing a child through a closed adoption

Rebuilding her life through recovery

Celebrating eight years of sobriety

Becoming a present and committed mother

Returning to college

Working with parents involved in family-court cases

Seeing addiction and family separation from both sides

Leading a recovery program for four years

Passing her position to a former client whose life transformed

Turning her greatest pain into purpose

Why recovery can restore far more than sobriety

This is not a story about pretending the past never happened.

It is a story about using the most painful chapters of life to become the person someone else needs.

Jamie is proof that recovery can lead to motherhood, education, leadership, service, and an entirely new future.

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Nathan Thomas was introduced to substances by his own family when he was only 9 years old.

By his early teenage years, his addiction had escalated to benzodiazepines and other pills. At 17, Nathan was homeless, moving from place to place and desperately trying to outrun a life that was quickly falling apart.

But the streets were only the beginning.

For the next 11 years, Nathan found himself repeatedly incarcerated. Every time he was released, his addiction became more destructive. The consequences grew, the pain deepened, and the possibility of building a different life seemed farther away.

After being released from prison on a drug-sales conviction, Nathan experienced the most devastating loss of his life—the death of his first son. He was also blessed with a daughter and finally understood that he could not continue living the same way.

Nathan says God gave him a clear choice: continue down the path that had already taken nearly everything from him, or completely surrender and begin again.

On May 15, 2021, Nathan chose recovery.

Through faith, Alcoholics Anonymous, Celebrate Recovery, accountability, and a willingness to do something completely different, his life began to transform.

Today, Nathan is a trusted man, a devoted family man, and a professional who helps other people every day. He went from childhood substance use, homelessness, addiction, incarceration, and unbearable grief to a life filled with purpose, peace, responsibility, and service.

In this raw conversation with Adam Larkin, Nathan opens up about:

Being introduced to substances at only 9 years old

Escalating to benzodiazepines and pills as a teenager

Becoming homeless at 17

Spending 11 years in and out of incarceration

Returning to addiction after every release

Losing his first son

The moment God forced him to make a choice

Getting sober on May 15, 2021

Finding recovery through AA and Celebrate Recovery

Rebuilding trust, family, purpose, and peace

Why nobody is ever too far gone

Nathan’s story is proof that your past may explain where you have been—but it does not have to determine where you are going.

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